Everything you need to know about Offseason and the World Cup 2026 pick'em.
Offseason is a pick'em app for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. You predict every group-stage match, fill out a knockout bracket, and compete with your league in a private group. It's the simplest way to put some friendly stakes on every match without resorting to a spreadsheet.
Yes. Offseason is free to play. Create leagues, invite your group, play the whole tournament at zero cost. It's a passion project from a league commish for other sports fans who want to compete through a live event together.
Offseason is live on iOS, iPad, and the web at offseason.org. Sign in once and your picks sync across devices in under fifteen seconds.
Yes. Signing up takes about 15 seconds. Email, password, username, done. We keep it minimal so your picks follow you across devices and your league commissioner can find you. No phone number, no real name, no personal info beyond that.
Just what we need to run your account: email, a hashed password, your username, and your picks. Your data is yours. We run the platform, and we don't share your info outside of the people in your own league. The full breakdown is in our Privacy Policy.
About 30 seconds to install and create an account. Joining a league is one tap with a code from your commish. Making your first set of picks for the group stage takes 5–10 minutes if you go fast, or as long as you want if you like to deliberate.
Group stage: 3 points for the correct result (win/draw/loss), 5 points for the exact score, +1 bonus for correct goal difference.
Knockout rounds: 2 points (R32) / 4 (R16) / 8 (QF) / 16 (SF) / 32 (Final), escalating per round.
Champion bonus: +50 points for correctly picking the champion before the tournament starts.
You still get the 3 points for the correct result, plus the +1 goal-difference bonus if your margin matches. The 5-point exact-score bonus is the cherry on top. It rewards you for being precise without punishing you for being directionally correct.
Group-stage picks for each match lock at that match's individual kickoff time. Knockout-bracket picks lock when the group stage ends and the bracket is officially set. The champion pick locks when the first match of the tournament kicks off on June 11, 2026.
Yes, anytime before the relevant lock deadline. Edit, change, refine, agonize all you want. Once a match kicks off (or once the bracket locks), those picks are final.
The 2026 World Cup features 48 teams across 12 groups of 4. The top 2 from each group plus the 8 best third-place teams advance to a 32-team knockout bracket. Round of 32 → Round of 16 → Quarter-Finals → Semi-Finals → Final.
If two members are tied on total points, we break it in this order: (1) most exact-score picks, (2) most correct knockout-bracket picks, (3) earliest correct champion pick. After all that, if you're still tied, you both share the rank. That's a great problem to have.
Open the app, tap "Create a League", give it a name, set a password, and share the league code with your friends. They enter the code and password to join. Whoever creates the league becomes the commissioner.
You set the max when creating the league. We support up to 50 members per league. If you need more, run multiple leagues. There's no limit on how many leagues you can be in.
Absolutely. Join as many leagues as you want: your office league, your family league, your college friends league, your soccer-snob league. Each league tracks picks separately, so you can experiment with different strategies (or play the same picks across all of them).
Commissioners can rename the league, change the password, kick disruptive members, and (if needed) generate one-time recovery links for league members who lost access. They cannot see members' picks before lock time. That would defeat the whole point.
No. Picks are hidden from other members until each match's lock time. Once a match kicks off, the picks for that specific match become visible to your league. The bracket reveals after the group stage ends.
Yes. Profile → Leagues → tap the league → Leave. Your picks remain in the leaderboard for the people you left behind, but you'll no longer see updates from that league.
Tap "Forgot password?" on the login screen and we'll email you a reset link. Standard stuff, no special recovery dance required.
Yes. Profile → Edit Profile → Username. You can change it once every 30 days. If you need an emergency rename (e.g. your username has personal info you want removed), email support@offseason.org.
Profile → Settings → Delete Account, or email support@offseason.org. We'll permanently delete your data within 30 days, per our Privacy Policy.
No. Your data is yours. We run the platform, and we don't sell, rent, license, or otherwise hand off your personal data to anyone outside of the people in your own league. The one exception is the service providers we rely on to keep the app running (hosting, email delivery, crash reporting), and those are covered in our Privacy Policy.
Not currently. Offseason is funded by the people who built it, and the experience is designed around a clean pick'em flow. If that ever changes, we'll be upfront about it here first.
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, and Arabic. The app auto-detects your device language. You can change it anytime in Profile → Language.
June 11, 2026. The opening match is Mexico vs South Africa at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.
48 teams across 12 groups of 4. That's expanded from the previous 32-team format, making it the biggest World Cup in history.
USA, Canada, and Mexico. 16 venues across 16 host cities including MetLife Stadium (New Jersey), SoFi Stadium (Los Angeles), AT&T Stadium (Dallas), Azteca (Mexico City), and BMO Field (Toronto).
Sunday, July 19, 2026 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
104 matches total (72 group-stage matches plus 32 knockout matches). That's about 39 days of football across three countries.
Kickoff times vary by venue (USA East, USA West, Canada, Mexico). Offseason shows every match in your local timezone automatically. No time zone math required.
If FIFA postpones or reschedules a match, picks for that match remain locked at the original kickoff time and are scored when the rescheduled match is played. If FIFA voids a match or replaces it entirely, we replace the picks with the new fixture and reset locks accordingly.
Make sure you tapped the Save button in the upper-right of the picks screen. Picks are not saved automatically. If the issue persists, try closing and reopening the app, or pull down on the picks screen to force a refresh.
The leaderboard updates as match results come in. There's a 1–2 minute delay after a match ends while we score everyone's picks. If you see stale data, pull down on the leaderboard to refresh.
We pull match data from FIFA's official feed. If something looks wrong, email support@offseason.org with the match and the correct result and we'll investigate within a few hours.
On iOS: Settings → Offseason → Notifications → enable Allow Notifications. On Android: Settings → Apps → Offseason → Notifications → enable. Then in the Offseason app: Profile → Notifications to pick which alerts you want (live matches, league updates, lock reminders).
Email support@offseason.org with the steps to reproduce and (if you can) a screenshot. We read every bug report and respond within 1–2 days.
Have a question we didn't cover? Email support@offseason.org and we'll get back to you fast.
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